I could have done that model with less tris but I need those to add some nice animations later.

Animations
Which brings me to the next topic: Animations.
I did not animate anything in Blender before which is why I decided to start small. So I took the snail model, added bones and made some simple animations.

This is the crawl cycle animation. No legs, no arms. Basically just 2 keyframes (acutally 4 with the starting position inbetween but it could be just 2). Snails don't move like this in real life but this animation makes it a bit more exciting!

Of course this is not the actual animation speed which will be used in-game. That should be much slower.

Afterwards I made a death animation. This one really still needs some work. I wanted to add some twitching but it doesn't look good. I will probably make it only fall and curl up.

And here are various other animations combined in one GIF: wobbling with the antennae (idle) moving front and back part up (could be played when it's hit) moving only the head up (could be used for different things)

I admit that all these animations are very rough and could be refined but hey it's just a snail and these are my very first Blender animations!